Chestnut House, Laurieston is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. House.
Chestnut House, Laurieston
- WRENN ID
- eternal-moulding-shade
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NX 682 648
- Coordinates
- 54.96088, -4.05959
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Chestnut House in Laurieston is an early 19th century, two-storey, three-bay symmetrical house. It features painted rubble walling with polished raised angles and window margins. The central entrance has a partially glazed door with a narrow fanlight above. The windows are single light sash and case types, arranged in a two-pane glazing pattern. The house has coped end stacks with thackstanes, a sandstone ridge, and skews, all topped with slate roofs. At the rear, there is a single-storey brick addition in the centre.
Local climate
Chestnut House, Laurieston sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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